Book Quotes - Page 12

• Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

  Charlaine Harris

  Reading, Vacation, Buying

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• Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Followers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 23, 2017

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• Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

  George Crabbe

  Cooking, Mind, Please

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.93

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• Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

  Benjamin Carson

  Reading, Library, World

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• I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

  Nick Hornby

  Self, Expression, Littles

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

  Joseph Joubert

  Reading, Statistics, Worst

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• That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lonely, Reading, Literature

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• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Longing, Good Company, Instruction

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.292

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• If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspirational, Beauty, Reading

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• No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

  Ezra Pound

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

  Jeremy Collier

  Support, Solitude, Burden

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

  William Styron

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Education, Learning

  "Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1998.

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• Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.

  Walt Whitman

  Spring, Night, Men

  'So Long!'

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• There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Children, Reading, Kids

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• A book is the only immortality.

  Rufus Choate

  Reading, Immortality

  "Part of a Man's Life". Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.

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• I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose
  between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

  George Gissing

  Reading, Smell, Noses

  George Gissing (2015). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.22, George Gissing

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• For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

  George Gissing

  Scent, Lovers, One Thing

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

  Richard de Bury

  Reading, Would Be, World

  Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

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• The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

  Ross Macdonald

  Wall, Past, Library

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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

  Gilbert Highet

  Reading, Heart, Men

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• Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

  Julian Barnes

  Life Is

  Flaubert's Parrot ch. 13 (1984)

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  When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, God, Growing Up

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards and James Fox, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2010.

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• The newest books are those that never grow old.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Reading, Grows

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